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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1957)
Sunday, June 3. 13S7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTTKI fTJTB Buy "EASY-TO-LIVE-WITH 11 DEMPSTER FURNITURE CO. o SEEING DOUBLE Two sisters, married to two brothers, show off their babies born on the same day in hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Mrs. Philbert Marion (left) holds her daughter, Juliette, and her sister, Mrs. Ovide Marion beams over her son, Julien. Investors in Nutria Cautioned to Study Before Spending Prospective investors in the i establishment in the fur trade country's latest fur farming busi-'a5 a luxury fur. Today, there is ness. raising nutrias, were cau-!no evidence to prove that there . , is a natural demand for ranch honed today by the Jackson i rai . ,,.,, . nr . i( . County Chamber of Commerce : profitabe to raise'nutrias for the 10 inii-MiKaie ine economic as- ur pro(j,CC(j " pects of such a venture before ' investing. Don McNeil, manager of the chamber, stated that although the honest element in the nutria raising business undoubtedly is striving to put it on a sound basis through the sale of quality pelts in the raw fur market, some high pressure promoters are interested only in fast profits Holmes Signs Bill For Fair Buildings Salem up A bill calling for construction of a S300.000 dorm itory and exposition building for through the sale of breeding ! 4H club and ""ture Farmers of stock at exorbitant prices. America mcn.oers ai me uregon Bulletin Released i s,ate Falr t""iinds has been sign- In a bulletin just released by :ed b-v Cov- Robert D. Holmes, the National Better Business Preliminary studies for the Bureau, entitled "Raising Nu-1 structure, scheduled for use for trias In Captivity." it is empha-ithe 1958 state fair, are already sized that the primary purpose underway, according to State of raising fur animals in pens is Fair Commission Chairman Jack for the fur produced and the sale ; Travis. Exact location of the of breeding stock is a secondary j building will not be determined consideration. Promoting thej until an over-all land use study sale of breeding stock as the sole; of the grounds is completed. objective, the bulletin states, is ! The new building will house in the nature of a "gct-rich-quick'' scheme. Some promoters have charged as much as $1,000 or mora for a pair of nutrias, falsely claiming that the pelts raised from these furry rodents command as much as $75 ech. and that the demand for nutria fur is unlimited. Ac cording to the National Better Business Bureau, w ith which the Jackson county chamber is af filiated, pen-raised nutria pelts are in competition with pelts im 601) youths, provide feeding fa cilities for them and also provide exhibit space for all their non livestock activities. It will be the first building designed espe cially for this purpose. Representatives of the state fair, FFA and 4-H organizations were on hand for the signing in the governor's office. They in cluded Mrs. Andrew Harvey, Pendleton, president of the state 4-H Leaders Association; Rand olph Smith. Canby, legislative ported from South America, and ; chairman of the statewide 4-H with an abundant and rapidly and FFA State Fair committee; increasing supply of wild nutria; and Burton S. Hutton, Corvallis, from the Gitlf Coast marshes of : state 4-H leader. the United States. Economic Codiii Referring to economic condi-: Ginger Rogers Files tions as they ffect nutria rais-i A-:-- I r:.. irw McNeil stated: "The finest South American pel's sell for approximately S7 in the raw state there, whereas trappers in Louisiana and Texas receive from 50 cents to about $2 each for raw pelts. Instead Hollywood V Friends to day blamed "age and career dif ferences" for the breakup of the four year marriage of Actress Ginger Rogers, 45, and her 29- year-old husband, French actor of beinj; in unlimited demand. Jacques Bergerac. as claimed by the unethical pro moters, the demand for nutria fur garmenii today is slight. A The willowy film star charged Bergerac with mental cruelty in a divorce action filed in Santa recent survey conducted by the i Monica superior court. The cou- National Better Business Bureau in cooperation with local Better Business Bureaus throughout the country. showed that the large majority of retail establishments selling furs crried no nutria fur garmdnls because of the slight demand. "Even though nutria furs from the wild are plentiful, high pro cessir.g and manufacturing costs have ?aued the price of nutria garments to reach the luxury class, aud few women are buv ing nutria at the luSury prices. O .. t: . rt . . .-iAt-tie 10 iu wcr ceni oi me i sktiis coming into the raw fur market ire exported to Europe where IKe cost of processing pclM s about fiO per cent less than it is here. For the most part tho.-e consumed here are low grade skins used principally for linings in coats. Market Factors "investors in nutria are re minded that the ultimate success of raising nutrias in ctptivity de pends upon whether there is a sound market for nutria fur and whether it can be produced in quantity to attract favor on tne market at prices high enoi.!i to assure profitable production in competition with an abund ant Tippiv of w ild nutria. ' "VTno'.hcr the honest, wei! in tentioned clement in the indus try can produce pelts of suffi- ciently high quality to command ' market prices high enough to cover costs of production and allow a sufficient margin of profit for financial success is speculative. Basically, the future of the industry w ill depend upon the acceptability of nutria fur by the world of fashion and its pie was reported to have reached i 3 property settlement. i LATEST RAGE Hie new est teenage idol, a lad America has watched grow up on television, is Ricky Nelson, 17, free of com plexes, sideburns or duck tails. 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